By BR Kellie
Every now and then someone does something on YouTube or Instagram and the beauty world stops, stares, and then tells the beauty-loving world about it. This happened recently when a woman cut her own hair. You can check out the video here.
Makeup artist, Kamila Bravo, posted a short video on Instagram showing how she cuts her side bangs. Basically (if you can’t be bothered watching the video) she takes her fringe, squirts water (or some kind of misty wet hair product) onto it, twists the hair around tightly, then chops it. Boom. Just like that. FROM ABOVE NOT BELOW HER FINGERS. Now I had to capitalise that because I was taught that fringes should always be chopped from below the finger line. Why was I taught this? My mother once had a friend chop her fringe from above… and it took forever to grow out, and it wasn’t pretty, and for a teenager in the 60s that was a harsh lesson to learn. Anyhooooo, Kamila then blow dries her newly cut hair out and ends up with a perfectly shaped chin-length long side fringe.
The video spurred a bit of chatter amongst the BR Crew. Who had chopped their hair? Had it worked out? If it hadn’t have worked out what would you have done? (The answer to that, as you’d expect, was tie it up, pin it back, wear hats, work from home for months and have all your needs delivered.) Personally, I have never and will never chop my own hair, because I was blessed with a random mop that needs the tender loving care of a trained and talented hairdresser, however, I have cut my daughter’s hair – and the bit that’s a little bit longer than the rest still nags at me, but she won’t let me chop her hair again and refuses to sit still for a hairdresser… lucky she’s three and cute.
During our conversation about the pros and cons of cutting ones own hair we remembered some Beauty Review members talking about cutting their hair using the CreaClip on the forum. The CreaClip is a styling system that uses a smaller blue and a larger white clip to cut hair. Apparently it’s a simple as ‘clip, slide and cut!’. Too easy? After checking out videos on the New Zealand distributor, Here Cut’s, site, it really does look simple! Just clip the clip into your hair, slide it down, use the built-in level (like what builders use!!) to make sure the clip is straight, and then chop chop chop. They do recommend you only do a little at a time, and I like that kind of prudence. It saves emotional trauma and a fair bit of rocking back and forth in a corner crying over your lost locks.
So do tell? Are you a self-chopper? Do you freestyle it with scissors? Do you own a CreaClip? What are your experiences with it? Or are you very much in the mind of the only person to ever cut your hair will be your trusted hairstylist? Get chatting!
Head over to our Blog - Natalie has been challenged to restyling her own hair, at home. She'll be taking the Creaclip out for a spin, as will 5 members, when it comes up for trial, very, very soon!
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I haven't gone to the hairdressers to cut my hair since 2011 when I took the plunge to get an asymmetrical bob! Since then I've always cut my own hair, and don't trust anyone with cutting it haha. I usually watch tutorials on youtube (aka pulling all of your hair to the front in a ponytail and cutting a straight line - instant layers!) or use my thinning scissors which always fixes any mistakes.